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Teams & Technology

In our organizations, people are working virtually more and more often. Despite distances, team members need to work together effectively and productively, sharing and combining their insights and knowledge. Everyone needs to be clear about who knows what so they can rely on each other and work together effectively. Sharing and integrating...

Shredding

Spring is turning to summer here in the high desert and the restless energies of the changing seasons are moving through me.
I've been cleaning out my office little-by-little lately, going through old mail and the like. The idea of shredding documents impacted me surprisingly deeply this time.
When I've worked as an internal consultant,...

Foreign Policy: Who's Paying Attention?

As the U.S. election rhetoric heats up and the Republican and Democratic parties advocate their strongly-held positions, I'm afraid that something important is getting lost.
Media-professed wars on women, the poor, and students obscure an international reality that is turbulent, unstable, and dangerous.
As an international policy wonk, I pay...

Paying Attention

Everything I read points to the need for attention for our brains to develop new neurons and synapses, and I've been wondering about awareness and attention. Mindfulness practice is an awareness and attention practice where we build our capacity to pay attention by stopping our activity and focusing on our direct and immediate experience.
We...

Team Work and the Role of Reflection

Reflection is one of the hardest things for leaders to implement.
Even if leaders knew the value of reflection, it would be hard to implement. As it is, reflection is an unknown capacity that has enormous potential to accelerate learning. According to Jack Mezirow, founder of transformative learning theory, without reflection, there is no learning...

Inquiry

I’ve learned some new things about inquiry recently. I’ve been working with inquiry for some time and I love learning new ways of practicing. The three things I learned came from my research in neuroscience.
I have been reading Allan Schore’s 1994 book, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional...

Smacked in the Face by Darkness

I live a peaceful life running a small business from my home in Reno, Nevada. My work requires travel and offers me the good fortune of working with international leaders to help them improve their collaboration and communication.
Life’s pretty good and the organizational world that I am immersed in has challenges of growth, revenue...

Social Media Gives Wings to Our Aspiration

Language shapes our world and relationships. Yet we talk, write, and think without attending to language itself—it is like the air we breathe without noticing.
How we speak and think frames the way we conceptualize experience and relationships. The idea of social swarming, which Dr. Nancy Southern discussed in her most recent post, is an...

Culture Clash: China and the Plight of the Tibetan People

As Nancy Southern pointed out in her recent post, engaging with China presents certain challenges because of the different value systems in play. China has moved extraordinarily swiftly to become the world power it is today, and its values do not include an emphasis on individual rights and liberties that are part of civil society in the U.S.
At a...

The Complexity of Doing Business with China

In 2008, I flew to Beijing, China, at the invitation of a friend who had arranged my hotel accomodations. This particular trip—my first in a series of several business trips to China to work on consulting projects in the year that followed—coincided with China’s National Day, which is celebrated on October 1st.
When I arrived in...

Good Design. Faulty Thinking.

One of the most compelling qualities of our brains and minds is that we are designed to be social beings. Our brains are designed for relationship because they form through relationships while our neural networks and patterns of thought grow and change as we relate and respond to the people in our lives.
We also develop in relationship with the...

El Día de los Muertos

My time living and working in Mexico has given me an appreciation for the celebrations of Halloween on October 31st, All Saints' Day on November 1st, and the Day of the Dead (or Día de los Muertos) on November 1st through the 2nd.
To remember the dead and honor their joys and pleasures in life at the end of October, I often create an...